The Stena Vinga ro-pax has joined Stena Gothica and Urd, and will sail with them between Germany and Latvia for a couple of weeks in April and May.

The multinational consultancy has won the safety, reliability, availability and maintainability (RAMS) contract, awarded by RB Rail AS, a consortium that's in charge of setting up the standard-gauge freight & passenger 1,000 km-long rail line from Estonia to Poland.

Responding to a request submitted by the Flemish-Dutch port authority of North Sea Port, the European Commission will prolong the Corridor in question to also include the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal Zone.

According to the new 20-year-long agreement, the Swedish ferry company will continue to sail to and from Noord Natie Ventspils Terminals' (NNVT) facility in the Port of Ventspils.

As of 1 January 2021, the ferry will cease sailing on the Tallinn-Stockholm-Riga-Stockholm-Tallinn and Tallinn-Helsinki routes.

Following Stena Line's move from Nynäshamn to Norvik as part of its service to and from Ventspils, the company's Stena Flavia has inaugurated the port's ro-ro operations.

Stena Lagan and Stena Mersey will undergo lengthening, by 36 metres, in the Turkish Sedef shipyard in Tuzla, after which they'll be employed across the Nynäshamn-Ventspils service.

The Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), operating in the Port of Riga, has started using its brand-new SANY ship-to-shore (STS) crane.

As of 13 August the company's ro-paxes Stena Gothica and Urd will also make a Thursday evening call to the Port of Karlskrona on their way from Latvia to Germany.

The Estonian ferry company will prolong sailings across the Helsinki-Riga and Tallinn-Turku routes till January and March 2021, respectively.